My book of the month! Sangamithra Iyer’s gorgeous memoir*watershed*confluence, Governing Bodies, is out on November 4 from Milkweed.

This morning my piece for The Nation, “New World Sourdough” (reporting from Delaware) came out for the July / August issue, These dis-United States. Meanwhile, let’s eat.
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Today, baking and catching up on writing. Tomorrow and next three days, camping! 🔥
Images: tray of everything sourdough bagels; sourdough loaf I’m bringing; & bald cypress swamp at #TrapPond a glorious (surviving fragment of) Southern Delaware wetland

Report from language-learning world! my daughter and partner just figured out why my granddaughter, almost two, calls her baby doll’s pacifier a *fireplace* 😂🔥 🥵 —the syllables 🔂 🤯 —haha so good

Donika Kelly doing memory work

Sourdough experiment no7 🥯 a success! Very springy chewy. Almost gone now, sorry you couldn’t make it. 😋 still wish you were here.

Emily Dickinson’s everywhere, but here she serves the best food. [Legazpi Sunday Market in Makati]

View of Mandaluyong from Makati. Got caught in the rain! Spent the day at Ayala Museum—their library a beautiful refuge.

She warned me, “Have nothing to lose.“

Why ask advice on packing!—for a monumental journey to Philippines—when I do not know even the names of my immigrant father’s parents? 🫥 Most of my life his country of birth loomed, perhaps in his mind as well as mine, as fantasy island. He just would not or could not talk about it. (Daddy & Momma:)